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by Faark 7y ago
If you don't mind... I'm eager to hear how this is... fun. I've personally encountered whales in two situations: One was someone in an MMORPG trading equipment. Okay, I kind of get the skipping work part, especially if the
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> Would these strategies have been a thing if so many people didn't flip their shit because a near AAA level game tried to charge a few bucks? Yes, since AAA Studios want all the money they can possibly get. Thus we'd always en
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> what's Amazon's benefit? Packaging? As in neither your neighbor nor the delivery guy know there is a $500 SSD in that little package. What other company is able / willing to pack such a huge variety of products into its
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Yes, the advantage of a two party system is power frequently switching between parties. Its a feedback loop that seems to keep both parties balanced and other systems should look to find ways to achieve similar effects. And certainly doesn&
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> Turns out an unrelated 3rd party can suddenly remotely disable Tor anonymity protections at their whim Am I the only one annoyed by people pushing this "they flicked a switch" narrative? No. They provided shitty software that
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Because you usually want to use the service that has the snapshot you want to view. And that isn't always archive.org. But it is my first place to go as well.
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> For all they know I'm using the software in a museum, 20 years from now, about this era of computing. And then you'll simulate a time appropriate for the device/software. As a date before 2038 to not have unix time overf
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Eh, for me only that often if you include stuff caused by a dumb user (aka me). And even then I always got them back one way or another. Usually from %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile]\sessionstore-backups (thankfully there's
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> Consensus shouldn't be the goal. Not for everything, correct. But there also are ideas that can hardly coexist and areas were consensus seems necessary. Politics is an obvious one, since at the end of the day the laws we make will
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Also having sold the autonomous product already to customers ensures constituents will put a lot of pressure on politicians instead of the company having to do that lobbying by themselves.
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The talking point i usually hear against this is "germany exports the huge fluctuation in production caused by green energy to the eu grid, straining the entire system". I haven't come across a good argument against this. Imp
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> And it's absolutely not Android's fault as much it is app developers' faults I do see it as a shortcoming of android that i cannot redirect unwanted capabilities into a harmless sandbox version of those.
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I agree with the spirit of your first sentence. This is exactly what we want. > you should let people with different opinions talk to each other and work out their disagreements verbally But this part is sadly not happening. Less than ev
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a) Deplatforming should never be used for revenge, but to prevent bad outcomes in the future. You seem to entirely focus on the past instead of arguing for it to have any future benefit. Incidentally, "by now everyone knows it's s
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> It wasn't healthy if you were a developer, and were forking over a monopolistic 'PC game tax' to Valve. You can sell directly though your own channel and give steam keys. Afaik without paying the 30% steam tax. Those key
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I think that Steam monoculture was quite healthy. Probably a bit stagnant, but definitively not as bad as it could have been. Valve had/has considerable power but didn't go evil. I'll give them a lot of respect for that. Epic
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> It’s done because private industry in most circumstances, does it better than government can, and at the end of the day it can be significantly cheaper and less of a boondoggle than if government did it all themselves as government lik
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> It's at the point now where almost all of them from YouTube go to the spam folder. It doesn't make any sense since they are emails from Google It makes a lot of sense... people use the spam button as a lazy man's unsubsc
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I have a hard time following. I don't feel well read on the topic, but your argument seems to boil down to "our thinking is so awesome, it must be magical". This strongly reminds me of creation myths where humans desperately
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> Merkel just plainly removed certain reports, not sure about the topic. Removing all political influence is hard. I also am certain there was a case of some politician calling an editor, but don't remember the details beyond the po
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Because the question isn't about what a theoretical best system consists of. No one (including Musk) denies more sensors could theoretically be beneficial. Adding a gravitational wave detector to your car would ensure the car doesn&#x2
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I can imagine where you're coming from and doubt we'd have much of a fruitful conversation, so I'll focus only on your first part: > Every comment supporting censorship here is just restating the pro-authoritarian censorsh
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> A mathematics paper caused an uproar because somebody tried to show that it's mathematically possible for sex differences to appear That sounds indeed like a motivated actor. I'm not familiar with such a case, so lets keep it
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Nature offer the letter because it is the standard way to respond in such situations? I didn't read this as them denying to publish something more extensive because of the topic. They obvio
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That would indeed be problematic, but is not what happened here. To quote the article: > Meghan Daum: Why did you choose to publish in Quillette? > Larry Cahill: Because the editor asked me. [Others] didn’t ask me. When I contacted N
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> I thought the person you were responding to was making a very thoughtful point, and one that was very respectful of women and the valuable insight some of them have that is often overlooked. The problem is his comment can very easily b
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He isn't just doing research and let the conservatives vs feminists argue by themselves. The article makes this quite obvious by him choosing a specific platform and ranting against feminists over and over again. It's ridiculous h
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> It's really disheartening to see that the best minds of the generation are busy spending time to reinvent the same old things instead of trying to improve upon the existing systems. I hear that often in regard of programming langu
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The question isn't if OOP or FP will win, but what mix of both is best. A lot of old OOP languages have added features that move them more towards FP. Out of the top of my head C# got E.g. extension methods, lambdas and many ways to be
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> Empirically, there seems to be a transition point in development where democracy goes from making a country less stable to making it more stable Even if that was the case for now (lets say e.g. reading or education made the masses hard

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